Top 1200 Political Debate Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am.

Nepotism is an overrated debate. It exists everywhere and I have been telling this from the day one.

Exploitation. Now, there's a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.

Let's be clear on one thing, the corporate media in America is no longer involved in journalism. They're a political special interest no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with a total political agenda, and the agenda is not for you, it's for themselves.

Are we allowed to sing? I imagine that at times, it might improve the tone of the debate.

Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

I like a lot of documentaries, I like political movies and political thrillers. But I also like a good action movie. I like a pretty wide range.

It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.

I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.

There is much debate in the scientific community as to the precise sources of global warming.

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

To effectively debate ideas and discuss complicated issues takes time.

The wrong people will do everything in their power to guarantee that the wrong political climate will continue. It seems, then, that the wrong people ensure the wrong political climate and the wrong political climate ensures the wrong people. How then to break free of this vicious circle?

It would be a mistake to view Camacho as the beacon of democracy in Mexico. He has played by the PRI's rules for more than 15 years. As mayor of Mexico City, he was recognized as a political broker, not as an apostle of substantive political reform.

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals.

It's a lack of respect for the community when you're not willing to debate because it's the 'wrong' network.

I've won every debate I've had with an atheist, and never converted even a single one.

I think every film is somehow a political film. You show a perspective and a world that has logic, and that logic is inserted into a political environment, and it means something. Yes, why not?

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

To have diversity of opinion in the debate strengthens the outcome and you get a better result.

Squelching debate by branding it un-American is dishonest, dangerous, and, in itself, hateful.

There was an event called the World Transformed, which was set up by Momentum, and people from across the political spectrum have had to tip their hat to it. It's vibrant, with interesting discussions and ideas. That's why it's such an interesting political moment.

I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.

I've done some moderating in the past at CBSSports.com. Certainly not in the debate format.

Look, I debate for a living so I don't need to learn any lessons from amateurs.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader.

I don't believe that using inflammatory rhetoric on either side of a debate is productive.

Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Ive never backed down from a fight and I relish a good debate.

We are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the President encourages vigorous debate.

The U.S. has long characterized Haitian immigrants as criminals. This tradition began in 1963 when the first boat of Haitians seeking political asylum was summarily rejected by U.S. immigration officials, while at the same time the U.S. admitted thousands of Cubans as refugees and political asylees.

When you look at that debate stage, Mitt Romney could have dominated it maybe.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

When you're in political times, you want to reflect those political times, and sometimes going back to our past is the best way to look at our present.

All political order presupposes a pre-political order, a sense that people belong together. And then, of course, they might seek a contract that embodies their togetherness. But the togetherness has to be there.

The issue is why Russia is being so successful in shaking American confidence in the integrity of our elections. And the reason is, it's because Democrats keep perpetuating and accentuating and proliferating Russian propaganda for their political gain and for their political motivation against Donald Trump.

What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years.

Despite the fact that the country was electing Republicans, Obama wasn't being stopped, and it's because of the political system. The political system has evolved into a giant bureaucracy, the primary purpose of which is self-preservation, not fixing anything.

You don't do new things and try to change the system without generating debate.

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

[T]here are, at bottom, basically two ways to order social affairs, Coercively, through the mechanisms of the state - what we can call political society. And voluntarily, through the private interaction of individuals and associations - what we can call civil society. ... In a civil society, you make the decision. In a political society, someone else does. ... Civil society is based on reason, eloquence, and persuasion, which is to say voluntarism. Political society, on the other hand, is based on force.

War is only caused through the political intercourse of governments and nations - war is nothing but a continuation of political intercourse with an admixture of other means.

Decentralisation is controversial - but that's fine. We should be fearless about having a debate.

To be a political poet means simply to be a poet, and any poet worth their salt will be a political animal in their own peculiar way - they have no choice: politics is one of the many fragments we thread into the tapestry of the poem.

The Newtown massacre created a tipping point on the gun debate in America.

It is far easier to debate about realistic painting than to paint one.

The public discourse online is not done through the polite language of debate.

It's said that once you win an election, that you win political capital, and that's kind of my intent, is to spend political capital on the Gulf Coast, among other areas.

One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy.

...Obama said, 'I welcome debate among my team, but I won't tolerate division'.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

We must apply a judicial, not a political, standard to this record. Asking a judicial nominee whose side you will be on in future cases is a political standard.